(v. i.) Firmly established; not easily moved, shaken, or overthrown; fixed; as, a stable government.
(v. i.) Steady in purpose; constant; firm in resolution; not easily diverted from a purpose; not fickle or wavering; as, a man of stable character.
(v. i.) Durable; not subject to overthrow or change; firm; as, a stable foundation; a stable position.
(v. t.) To fix; to establish.
(v. i.) A house, shed, or building, for beasts to lodge and feed in; esp., a building or apartment with stalls, for horses; as, a horse stable; a cow stable.
(v. t.) To put or keep in a stable.
(v. i.) To dwell or lodge in a stable; to dwell in an inclosed place; to kennel.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is supposed that delta-sleep peptide along with other oligopeptides is one of the factors determining individual animal resistance to emotional stress, which is supported by significant delta-sleep peptide increase in hypothalamus in stable rats.
(2) F(420) is photolabile aerobically in neutral and basic solutions, whereas the acid-stable chromophore is not photolabile under these conditions.
(3) These organic compounds were found to be stable on the sorbent tubes for at least seven days.
(4) A new and simple method of serotyping campylobacters has been developed which utilises co-agglutination to detect the presence of heat-stable antigens.
(5) We similarly evaluated the ability of other phospholipids to form stable foam at various concentrations and ethanol volume fractions and found: bovine brain sphingomyelin greater than dipalmitoyl 3-sn-phosphatidylcholine greater than egg sphingomyelin greater than egg lecithin greater than phosphatidylglycerol.
(6) The constitution of chromosomes in the two plasmacytomas remained remarkably stable in their homogeneous modal population.
(7) This would disrupt and prevent Isis from maintaining stable and reliable sources of income.
(8) Reiteration VII (within protein coding regions of genes US10 and US11) and reiteration IV (within introns of genes US1 and US12) were stable between the isolates (group 1).
(9) This Mr 20,000 inhibitory activity was acid and heat stable and sensitive to dithiothreitol and trypsin.
(10) Under these conditions, arterial pressure and sodium balance remained stable.
(11) Stable factor-dependent B-cell hybridomas were used to monitor the purification of the growth factor from the supernatant of a clonotypically stimulated mouse helper T-cell clone.
(12) This study describes the consequences of acute prostaglandin synthesis inhibition on the hemodynamic effects of nitroglycerin in patients with stable angina pectoris.
(13) Eighty-eight patients (97%) had a stable fixation and 77 (85%) had resumed preoperative activity or were working but with a residual deficit.
(14) In the dark the 6-azidoflavoproteins are quite stable, except for L-lactate oxidase, where spontaneous conversion to the 6-amino-FMN enzyme occurs slowly at pH 7.
(15) When antibodies were bound to cell-surface DPP IV at 4 degrees C, the immune complex remained stable for more than 1 h after rewarming to 37 degrees C, despite ongoing metabolic and membrane transport processes.
(16) Chemical modification of aldolase leads to formation of stable N epsilon (4-carboxybenzenesulfonyl-lysine (Cbs-Lys) and O-(4-carboxybenzenesulfonyl-tyrosine (Cbs-Tyr) derivatives.
(17) The administration of stable analogue of the leu-enkephalin did not alter the concentration of cortisole and aldosterone in the blood of white male rats whereas this concentration increased after administration of the parathormone.
(18) Both stable and labeled T3 were likewise found in these sera.
(19) Sec-alpha-halo-nitro compounds are active antibacterial and antifungal agents, and the sec-bromo derivatives are the most active and stable.
(20) These results indicate that the Mn-DTPASA complex is not stable.
Stabler
Definition:
(n.) A stable keeper.
Example Sentences:
(1) Results obtained here agree with the following scheme of fibrin assembly: monomers polymerize to protofibrils; long protofibrils associate laterally to fibers; occasionally a long protofibril associates with two different fibers to form an interfiber connection; fiber growth does not reverse to yield stabler, more compact, structures and terminates in formation of a network of fibers.
(2) After quantifying and establishing individual ligament contributions to valgus restraining function, knees were then braced with two different laterally applied preventive braces, the McDavid Knee Guard and the Omni Anderson Knee Stabler.
(3) The transition temperatures for the unfolding of rabbit, human, and hen lysozymes in 3 M guanidine hydrochloride at pH 5.5 were 51.2, 45.5, and 45.4 degrees C, respectively, indicating that rabbit lysozyme is stabler than the other two lysozymes.
(4) Compared to PZG, NH2PZG and its metabolite, 3-aminopyrazinoic acid, were much stabler in vitro in serum and water.
(5) The Lenox Hill Brace and the tape method used individually both restricted anterior-posterior translation and internal-external rotation better than the Stabler Brace alone.
(6) The circulatory condition of the patients with autologous transfusions was stabler than that of the patients with homologous transfusion or no transfusion.
(7) Regression is stabler and occurs more rapidly in patients with moderate deformity of the bronchial tree.
(8) We used five randomly selected cadaver specimens to evaluate the Anderson Knee Stabler and the Lenox Hill Knee Brace, individually and in combination with an anterior cruciate ligament protective tape method.
(9) Hemosorption was performed in 8 patients with a resistant status epilepticus and serial epileptic attacks; arrest of the attacks correlated with significantly faster and stabler normalization of the circulating levels of immune complexes and of the phagocytic activity of neutrophils as compared to the same parameters in patients receiving a course of conventional anticonvulsive and dehydration therapy without hemosorption.